China has clamped down further on issuing business visas, government officials said Thursday, in the latest expansion of already-tight entry restrictions for next...

A Philippine military spokesman says a bomb has exploded in a bus in the country’s south, killing at least three people.

A teenager wielding a knife died after police shot him with a Taser, the latest in a string of deaths linked to the stun guns, officials said Wednesday.

Mexico’s transportation secretary says it has grounded two airlines for lacking proof they paid for fly rights in the country’s air space.

Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba’s president was right to adopt a “dignified silence” over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may...

Venezuela’s government denied on Wednesday that President Hugo Chavez invited Russia to open a military base in his country, disputing a report by Russia’s...

A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast early Thursday, injuring at least 91 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of...

A Jewish group asked the Ukrainian government on Wednesday to stop construction on the site of a grave containing the remains of an estimated 26,000 victims of the...

A German woman was charged Wednesday with bludgeoning two toddlers to death with a hammer and seriously injuring their mother in a rampage in Sweden spurred by jealousy...

A trio of English cocaine smugglers who were caught after putting the wrong fuel into their boat received the longest drug-related prison sentences in Irish history...

Sudan’s president made a defiant visit to Darfur just a week after being charged with genocide in the war-ravaged region, vowing not to be intimidated by the...

DNA tests for the first time have confirmed that a baby was stolen from her mother and adopted for profit in Guatemala.

China will allow a modicum of dissent at the Olympics, setting up special protest zones far from the main sports venues, in a shift that supporters and detractors said...

The French electric company EDF says that 100 employees have been “slightly contaminated” by a leak at a reactor site in southern France.

In a July 16 story before the Senate vote on President Cristina Fernandez’s grain-export taxes, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the first name of a...

The United Nations Security Council will convene a special session to try to prevent a border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia from escalating into a military...

Venezuela signed over three more oil fields to a joint venture with Belarus on Wednesday, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declaring that the two nations were...

In a July 22 story about the war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, The Associated Press, based on a statement by the prosecutor, erroneously described...

Cycling’s image is in tatters, and authorities inside and outside the sport are being tougher than ever on doping. Yet it hasn’t stopped the drug cheaters...

Video footage of a young Canadian detainee being interrogated at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay has sparked a fierce debate among Canadians who worry...